John,
If XLink is to support the web , they should be added for sure.
Although they are strictly advisory, according to this note
http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/mime-respect#metadata-hints
Cheers,
Peter
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan@ccil.org] On Behalf Of John Cowan
> Sent: April 19, 2012 01:58
> To: Liam R E Quin
> Cc: Rushforth, Peter; Len Bullard; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] xml:href, xml:rel and xml:type
>
> Liam R E Quin scripsit:
>
> > Indeed, different HTTP clients (browsers) might receive different
> > formats, depending on the Accept: HTTP headers they send.
>
> Which is why XInclude has xi:include/@accept and
> xi:include/@accept-language headers, so that including
> documents can specify a particular version of included
> documents to try to fetch.
>
> These could be added to XLink 1.2 if anyone cared.
>
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